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Under the head B, the various factories or workshops, laboratory, 
&c. 
Under the head C, we may class the office portion of the establish¬ 
ment, through whose labours simple accounts and returns of stores, 
&c., are transmitted to the chief administrative and financial authorities, 
and the higher personnel of the arsenal. It will now be necessary to 
separate and define the subdivisions of work, enumerating these/the 
duties and responsibilities of the subordinate employe's, and showing the 
manner in which stores should be received and issued. 
A. Storekeeping. 
For convenience, it may be as well to name the different ranks of 
officials considered necessary to conduct the business of an arsenal. 
The “Head of the Arsenal” may be styled Superintendent. 
He should be assisted by specially qualified artillery officers as 
Assistant-Superintendents. 
The third rank should consist of men chosen from the non-commis¬ 
sioned grades of the artillery, or other branches of the service, or in the 
case of the factories from civil life, as Depy.-Asst.-Superintendents. 
The fourth rank may be chosen as the third rank, and would perform 
the duties of Storeholders, &c., with the rank of first-class staff serjeants. 
The departments and stores may be as follow :—• 
1. Department of Issue. 
2. n Receipt. 
(To these two departments would be attached the Packing Store.) 
3. Pattern Room. 
4. Armoury Department. 
5. Ordnance or Park, including carriages. 
6. (a) Harness, Saddlery, Horse Appointments; ( l ) Accoutrements. 
7. Camp Equipment. 
8. Tools and Instruments— i.e., those not kept in set or in regu¬ 
lated equipments. 
9. Engineer Store, for distinct use of R.E. 
10. Magazines. 
11. Raw Material Store. 
12. Timber Yard. 
13. Breaking-up Store. 
14. Unserviceable Store. 
1. Department of Issue. —This department should be situated close to 
the entrance of the establishment, with capacious rooms, and large 
fenced enclosures and sheds attached. 
tion,” and recommended that the Control Department should consist of two main sections in the War 
Office and in the field:—“ One for providing and issuing articles required for the daily consumption 
of an army—such as food, forage, fuel, and light, and for the administration of transport ; and the 
other for receiving and issuing all other stores. The latter division should be placed under an officer 
who has a professional acquaintance with munitions of war. . . . The education and training 
which an artillery officer receives is precisely that required for an officer of this division of the 
Control Department.” 
